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3 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
There are Republican governors in: Vermont, Massachusetts, Maryland AND Democratic governors in: Louisiana, Kentucky, Kansas. You are going to see a lot of hot-takes about what Virginia's election means for 2022 & 2024: those hot-takes are worth the paper they are written on.
If you don't believe me, ask Senator McGrath (D-KY) or Senator Boillier (D-KS) who both had near the biggest war chests in their elections, and got walloped.
I do not want to downplay the effect a Republican governor can have on the people of Virginia: in order to be a national figure he will do bad things to the people of Virginia. But, I would not draw the straight lines to the 2022 election that everyone wants to do.
Key thing: Democrats let Republicans & mainstream media make a completely fictious problem the top story of the 2021 election. They cannot let that happen in 2022. The story needs to be jobs, infrastructure, healthcare (Build Back Better).

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1 Nov
Reading through washingtonpost.com/politics/inter… will share things that jump out for me ...
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16 Oct
@maggieNYT (1) Democratic communications directors probably do a lot wrong with messaging, but they do not have access to the general population, they have access to hardcore supporters & the mainstream media. The mainstream media selects what they want to amplify to the general population.
(2) Mainstream media *chooses* to focus on the horse-race of getting the bills passed (and palace intrigue around that horse-race), rather than what is in the bills. Same choice for election coverage. Two key reasons for this (2a) they think the horse-races sells better ...
(2b) Mainstream media likes the horse-race, because it is easy to falsely equate the validity of the people policies & people of two parties, if (and only if) you ignore the policies! Impossible to actually showcase policy and not make the Republicans look bad!
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Living through it, it is impossible for us to appreciate the insanity of people *choosing relatively high risk of suffering & death* because their political party has decided convincing their supporters to choose unnecessary suffering & death is good for their electoral chances.
"It’s not that they don’t know anyone who has had COVID. Almost everybody here does. They just don’t believe that masks and vaccines are the solution...[Unvaccinated dude] says his support for Trump has nothing to do w/ his decision-making on vaccination" washingtonpost.com/education/2021…
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6 Oct
Same record after 162 games, now 1 game to get to #ALDS, Go @Yankees! Crush @RedSox #BuckyDent #WildCardGame
Feels like a small miracle the @yankees are going into the 7th only down by 3!
It has been a really enjoyable season for @Yankees, but this game is spiraling out 😞
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4 Oct
Republicans arguing people trying to engage Senator in bathroom WORSE than armed take-over of Capitol in attempt to murder Vice-President & block transfer of power to Democratic Biden. Republicans demanding bathroom protestors get deported, while insurrectionists not get charged.
People flooding this tweet to mock the severity of the 1/6 insurrection really proves me wrong!
Thoroughly convinced that the folks who want to monitor women's periods, block access to women's healthcare, check genitalia of children to harass them over possible gender fluidity, are super concerned about some random DEM voters confronting DEM senator in the bathroom.
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3 Oct
@mattyglesias @DouthatNYT Mainstream media & political elites destroyed Biden for ending Afghanistan War after 20 years and guaranteed that progressives will face same uphill battle when elites drum-up their next poorly considered war, also end to war has not tied to economic & moral soft power we need.
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